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… William, was born on Chatham Island on 7 July 1848. He was the second of nine children of Johann Heinrich Christoph … of a group of German Lutheran missionaries who had come to New Zealand in 1843, and shortly afterwards moved to the … lapsed. William Baucke's activities over the next 30 years are not clear. He claimed to have fought with Gustavus …
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… Kairākau Black was born in Ōpōtiki on 13 January 1902, the seventh child and youngest son of John Black, a farmer … for oratory. He also became a rugby blue and played for New Zealand Universities. He graduated MA in 1927 in English and economics. The early years of Black’s teaching career were spent at Mount Albert …
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… Scott was born in Ifield, Sussex, England, on 20 July 1900, the son of Walter Joseph Scott, a grocery manager, and his … Minnie Florence Church. In 1910 the family emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Onehunga, Auckland, where Walter … until she was sent to Moscow in 1930 to study for nearly a year at the Lenin School for communist leaders. On her …
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… was born at Belfast, Ireland, on 17 January 1860, the eldest of five children. He was the son of Sarah Davison … at a Presbyterian primary school at 12, then served a seven-year apprenticeship as a brass worker. In February 1880 the family emigrated to New Zealand. Jack McCullough arrived in Canterbury as the …
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… of Skye, Scotland, some time between 1805 and 1810. He was the son of Mary Nicholson and her husband, John Martin, a … connected with the Reform Bill 1832. Martin emigrated to New South Wales in early 1837, bought land, and engaged in … of the New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette on a two year contract and 'a fair salary'. He was disgusted with …
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… Frederic Le Cren and his brother, Henry John Le Cren, were born in London, England. … committee of the Canterbury Association and came out to New Zealand in the Barbara Gordon with his cousin, Joseph … for the fourth child and subsequent offspring, and for many years the Le Crens were members and benefactors of that …
Type: Biography
… Maruiwi Around the time of Toi, who was one of the first explorers to reach New Zealand from Hawaiki, the Maruiwi people inhabited lands … that his first child would be a boy, so he blew a trumpet heralding its arrival. In fact, the child was a girl. When a …
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Part of story: Ngāti Tūwharetoa
… Ruth Webb, born on 8 February 1901 in Rotorua, was the youngest of five children of Mary Wilson and her … final examinations, reputedly achieving the top marks in New Zealand. Unable to register as a pharmacist until aged … service in 1985. She died in Cambridge on 14 December that year, survived by her sons. …
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… Monolingualism to bilingualism At the beginning of the 20th century, most Māori still spoke … Auckland University College until 1952, the University of New Zealand Senate had agreed to permit the Māori language … for the government to offer Māori language in schools. That year the Te Reo Māori Society was also instrumental in …
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Part of story: Te reo Māori – the Māori language
… Raoul Island is the largest of the Kermadec Islands, over 1,000 kilometres … of which have erupted frequently over the last few thousand years. Recorded eruptions Eruptions have been observed and … testing spot. Fortunately the request was declined by the New Zealand government – for political reasons. 1964 A …
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Part of story: Historic volcanic activity
… The date of birth, the parentage and even the real name of … of mystery. He may have been born James Wilson, but in New Zealand he became notorious as Robert Butler. Police … of tempering justice with mercy' he was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. With the help of Detective Robert …
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… drink produced by infusing dried plant leaves in hot water. The leaves are most commonly from the Camellia sinensis … be made from any non-toxic, palatable leaves. Tea drunk in New Zealand is mainly imported – Sri Lanka is New Zealand’s … opened throughout the country in the 1990s and 2000s, heralding a new coffee culture. In 2009 New Zealanders …
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Part of story: Tea, coffee and soft drinks
… was born on 2 May 1830 at Moylough, County Galway, Ireland, the third son of John O'Rorke, an Anglican clergyman and … 1852 he graduated BA with honours in Classics. In the same year he went to Australia and worked as a stockman for … and Sydney. After a brief spell at gold-digging he moved to New Zealand with a college friend, Henry Taylor, in 1854. In …
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… Email The first use of digital media for social communication was … had a drastic impact on the use of postal services. By 2013 New Zealand Post was considering reducing postal services to … a week and was carrying 265 million fewer items than 10 years earlier. However, in 2013 email was a less common way …
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Part of story: Digital media and the internet
… Donald John Stott, the son of Annie McKay and her husband, Robert Edward Stott, … man with red hair, and after leaving school worked at the New Zealand Herald as a rotary machinist. Stott enlisted in … behind enemy lines in North Africa in October that year, and in March 1943 parachuted into Greece to join the …
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… John Rutherfurd Blair (baptised John) was born on 8 February 1843 … September 1869, he married Jean Ferguson Cowan of Dunedin, New Zealand. The same year they moved to Wellington, where Blair became Sands and … Blair, John Rutherfurd …
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… was born on 3 December 1814 and baptised at Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents were Harriott and … to live with a sawyer, John Deaves. Betty was brought up in their Sydney household with a brother, a sister and three … Captain John (Jacky) Guard, in 1827, when she was only 12 years old. It is more likely that she first arrived in New …
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… in Waimate, South Canterbury, Ngata Prosser Pitcaithly was the son of Edith Mabel Hildyard and her husband, George … College in 1925, and was selected for a specialist third year in the teaching of science in secondary schools. In … with an MA in chemistry and was elected an associate of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (he was elected a fellow …
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… was born in Waterford, Ireland, on 26 September 1792, the third of five sons of Samuel Hobson, a barrister, and … and one son. Lacking patronage, Hobson was for six years without a command. He and his wife visited relatives … Port Phillip. Early in 1837 the British Resident in New Zealand, James Busby , sent word that tribal war was …
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… born in Haggerston, London, England, on 24 February 1854, the son of Miriam Warren and her husband, Gregory Ruffell … was educated at Launceston Grammar School, before moving to New Zealand in 1865. As a lad Russell worked for the … Act 1894, he made several attempts over the next two years to introduce his own bill for periodic revaluation of …
Type: Biography